A text-book of electricity in medicine and surgery for the use of students and practitioners.

  • Poore, George Vivian, 1843-1904.
Date:
1876
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A text-book of electricity in medicine and surgery for the use of students and practitioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    orifices, however, made by the last operation). This was repeated on the following morning, and he died. Post-mortem.—The interior of the sac contained a mass of soft clots, some of which were readily washed away by a stream of water. The inner surface of the sac along the left concavity was quite exposed, but on the right concavity it was covered by a thick pyramidal mass of fibrin and firm ■clot, which occupied the whole of the right half of the sac. This mass, at and near its adherent base, was composed of a pale fibrinous mass in layers. Superimposed on this was an irregular mass of pink and softer deposit, and attached to the summit of the mass were several pendulous portions of soft clot, some of about the size of a pea, others as large as an almond. Most of these w«re firmly attached, and could not be detached by a stream of water. The soft parts round the external opening were reddened and infiltrated with pus. Case XXXVIII. Dr. M'Call Anderson's Second Case of Aneurism ('Lancet,' June 13, 1874).—J. G., m., aged 34. Probable Duration of Disease.—Three years. Seat.—Upper surface of transverse portion of arch of aorta (none of large vessels directly involved in it) oval in shape, and five or six inches long. First Operation.—October 22, 1873. Positive Pole.—Needle in sac. Negative Pole.—Zinc plate and sponge on chest wall. Current.—Eight large cells of Stohrer. Duration.—Thirty minutes. Result.—Nil. Second Operation.—October 26. Poles.—As at last operation. Current.—First six, then eight cells of Stohrer. Duration.—One hour. Result.—Burning pain in aneurism during operation. The